Hermann Hesse Quotes
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
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A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
